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@kleisauke kleisauke released this 11 Nov 13:12
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v8.15.0
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Release notes:

https://www.libvips.org/2023/10/10/What's-new-in-8.15.html

Changes for this release:

  • add support for target_clones attribute [lovell]
    • use with (un)premultiply for ~10% perf gain on AVX CPUs
    • use with XYZ to LAB colourspace conversion for ~10% perf gain on AVX CPUs
  • add fast path to extract_band and bandjoin for uchar images [lovell]
  • reduce vips_sharpen max sigma to 10 [lovell]
  • inline scRGB to XYZ colourspace conversion, ~2x faster [lovell]
  • set "interlaced=1" for interlaced GIF images [kleisauke]
  • add @line_art to find_trim [miltoncandelero]
  • improve C++ binding [MathemanFlo]
    • add inplace() / VImage::new_from_memory_copy()
    • add overloads for draw_*() / VImage::thumbnail_buffer()
  • allow negative line spacing in text [donghuikugou]
  • add VIPS_META_BITS_PER_SAMPLE metadata, deprecate the
    "palette-bit-depth" and "heif-bitdepth" meta fields [MathemanFlo]
  • add "revalidate" to foreign loaders [jcupitt]
  • add premultiplied option to smartcrop [lovell]
  • add "prewitt" and "scharr" edge detectors, "sobel" is more accurate for
    non-uchar formats [jcupitt]
  • add support for forms in pdfium loader [kleisauke]
  • swap built-in profiles with ICC v4 variants [kleisauke]
  • remove libgsf dependency in favor of libarchive [kleisauke]
  • better chunking for small shrinks [jcupitt]
  • use alpha range of 0.0 - 1.0 for scRGB images [DarthSim]
  • add support for 16-bit float TIFFs [DarthSim]
  • add direct mode to dzsave [jcupitt]
  • require C++11 as a minimum standard [kleisauke]
  • add support for SIMD via Highway [kleisauke]
  • threaded write in tiffsave for tiled JPEG and JPEG2000 [jcupitt]
  • add vips_thread_execute() to the public API [jcupitt]
  • add "keep" flag to foreign savers, deprecate "strip" [a3mar]
  • improve scRGB handling [jcupitt]

Windows binaries here:

https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/tag/v8.15.0

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